Banks of Green Willow

Another song that Jon picked up from Martin Carthy and as he says, “You can either read this as a warning against blind superstition, or as an instructional model for how to deal with a faerie infestation.” It seems that the song possibly alludes to a superstition that the presence of a wrong doer on a ship will bring disaster, although what the poor unfortunate lady who is thrown overboard has done is debatable. Still, as always, there are plenty of thoughts at Mudcat. This seems to come from a particulary period of Martin Cathy’s recordings and is to be found on Shearwater again from 1972.

The buy links should now work properly. We had some problems with a duplicate track and everything needed to be updated, but I’ve just tested them and they are now OK!

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Hi, lovely song – and I’m glad to hear more of unaccompanied Jon too. Unsure what the ‘faerie infestation’ notion cited is about though? I should let you know that your link isn’t working, so I’m off to Mudcat now to find the thread discussing it 🙂